HR Advisor (maternity contract)

We are looking for an HR Advisor to join us, covering a twelve month maternity contract.

The role in a nutshell: a key role providing specialist advice to people managers at KINTO UK and KINTO Join Ltd.  A varied role spanning across the entire employment life cycle.

A bit about the ‘People and Culture’ department: we work with the business to reach our aspiration of becoming the employer of choice by attracting, engaging, developing, and retaining people who are skilled and customer focused.

What you’ll be doing:

You’ll work together with an experienced and welcoming team, to create a great employee experience at KINTO through:  

• Collaborating with managers to attract, hire and retain great people.
• Meeting with new starters and leavers to ensure the best start and end to their KINTO journey.
• Supporting wellbeing, belonging, diversity, equity, and inclusion and associated initiatives.
• Supporting with employee relations, such as absence and/or performance improvement.
• Answering queries and providing data insight  e.g. regional reporting, DE&I, staff listing, leavers, movers’ reports.
• Supporting the team with processes and checklists.
• Checking the monthly payroll submission
• Maintaining the people related policies.
• Joining projects teams, supporting the culture of continuous improvement

This role can be based in either our Portsmouth or Burgh Heath office, but please be advised that you will be required to spend one day a week in each office.

Key Experience & Skills:

• Previous HR Advisor experience
• Knowledge of current employment legislation.
• Recruitment experience
• Experience of working within a busy and corporate company
• A CIPD qualification is desirable

Attributes & Behaviours

You will work within a high performing team, in a culture of continuous improvement and inclusivity, showing respect for people and working with integrity, therefore you will need to:

• Have good attention to detail.
• Be pro-active.
• Have excellent time management skills.
• Have knowledge and understanding of how to deal with confidential issues.

• Competitive starting salary
• Bonus earning potential
• 25 days holiday + 8 days bank holiday
• Great pension scheme starting at employee (EE) contribution of 4% with an employer (ER) contribution of 11%. This can flex up to 6% EE contribution and 15% ER contribution
• Company Car
• Car Scheme following passing of probation
• Private Medical Cover
• Life assurance scheme
• Discounts on different retailers
• Wellbeing hour each month
• Discounts on Toyota & Lexus cars
• Volunteer Days
• Wellbeing events
• Employee assistance programmes
• Free fruit in the office
• Free onsite car parking
• Working Hours 37.5 per week Monday - Friday
• Hybrid working policy 2 days from home each week should you want to

KINTO UK is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from anyone who is excited by the opportunity of joining us and will thoroughly consider all applications without attention to ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender, identity, family or parental status, national origin, veteran, neurodiversity status or disability status.

Our Recruitment Process:

At KINTO we value everyone and are pleased to be recognised as a Disability Confident Employer, which is a national standard that ensures our processes are accessible to all.

Everyone is unique, and that means what works for some may not work for everyone. When it comes to recruitment, please do let us know if we can adjust our process to meet your accessibility needs.

Some examples of how we might be able to help are listed below:

• Providing a copy of interview questions before the interview
• Organising a time and location that best suits you
• Allowing additional time for the assessment and interview

We are happy to review any adjustment on a case-by-case basis, so please let us know how we can support you to be your best self.

On the job training will be provided, we recognise we all learn differently, and we want to ensure that our training will suit your learning style. We are open to talking to you about how we can make learning your new role in the most positive way.